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@Titntin Yeah i know what you mean. I don’t take mine outside the house either. I buy the Switch like it’s a home console that just happens to also be portable. I think you’ll like Donkey Kong Bananza. It’s some of the most fun I’ve had in a while. Mario Odyssey was my favorite Mario game maybe ever. For sure top 2 and of course that team did Donkey Kong, so i knew i had to get it. There is so many games coming out soon that i need to finish DKB here soon. The next few months are going to be a lot of games. Which is about time, I’ve bought very little this year haha

@Titntin i think it looks good. But we won’t see the big change in the controller until MS releases the next Xbox. Then we should see some change and 3rd parties can license it out easier.

I fully expect to see a Asus Xbox at some point. But for now it’s smart to just focus on the handheld. Which is looking really nice. I just don’t use a handheld enough to get one. However i did play some Donkey Kong Bananza in bed the other night on Switch 2 and that was pretty nice. 😊

@WildConcept6 i agree with you 100%. I would like to see it play out that way too. But it is looking like 2027 for the next MS Xbox. Which i think ties into the work they are doing with AMD. Either way i will wait to buy the 1st party Xbox. Then maybe 2 years later if say Razer did one that was high end. I would buy that and use it as a PC on a monitor and have the 1st party Xbox under the Tv. 😊

@Millionski @Fiendish-Beaver thats the rumor that Asus might have a PC/Xbox console for 2026. MS’s 1st party console coming in 2027. So i am not sure how that will play out. But Asus seems happy to work with MS, so it likely could come. However and this is what has me thinking 2026 might be early and thats the chipset MS is using with AMD for multiple devices. Not sure that will be ready but if so, i am all for it.

Was hoping it was going to be a tease of the Asus Xbox console that is rumored to be hitting in 2026 before the first party Xbox. But the controller does look nice. I guess if true they wouldn’t want to steal eyes away from the handheld. Time will tell. Nice looking controller tho.

@Fiendish-Beaver as a HUGE Gears of War fan, i am here to just confirm you are in fact a HUGE Gears of War fan! Haha

I got it installed and ready to go for next week, i am looking forward to the PVP and since we know every inch of the ultimate edition. I want to see the work put into this. Cause watching the video. They did do a lot to it. I just want to see what that translates to on screen. E-day can’t come fast enough friend! 😀

@Fiendish-Beaver Trust me i hope you are right. But buddy i followed every site and reporter on that Gears collection and it was so back and forth as to if it was real or not. Every June showcase i would wait for it and no matter how good the showcase was i was disappointed in no Gears collection announcement. But if you are right and the work is started or close to done then we could see the trilogy much much sooner. As a crazy hardcore Gears fan i just want it all.i will be all over reloaded’s PVP. Then in 2026 we should get a big showing of E-Day for the June showcase. That’s my hope anyways. 😀

@Fiendish-Beaver yeah for sure, i didn’t reference that right, for PC it’s about getting the full trilogy and of course all 3 for PS. No telling when we would see part 2. That game will take a lot of work and time. Could be a while.

If we are going off the leaked document. They have a new battery solution for the controller listed alongside other nice features and enhancements. The Elite series controller have amazing battery life. I have the new Switch 2 Pro controller since launch and only charged it once. It’s insane how good that battery solution is.

@SMJ @Titntin

It’s more than a controller, to SMJ’s point. It’s been heavily rumored by Xbox insiders that in 2026 we will get a ASUS Xbox console then in 2027 the first party Xbox console will land. Then maybe other OEMS in the future. I wonder if this is a reveal. Could be cool. Asus is for sure on board with the Console/PC hybrid trend from MS. So i am interested to see if this rumor pans out.

@Valhura yes this one is made for the PC and PS crowd. Which i am good with, more players is a good thing in my book. Plus we get the upgrade for free so i am for sure ok with that. I will be on PVP making PS gamers rage quit!!

@Fiendish-Beaver i think they do do Horde. I think in order for Gears to grow and stay in the spotlight you have to give the new players the full experience. This reloaded was rumored to not have PVP and i was just not so sure on that. Happy my gut feeling was right and it’s there. I think Gears 2 and 3 on PC and PS will explode the franchise again in terms of sales and player numbers. So i am happy to see it expanding as i can sink thousands of hours into PVP and a decent into Horde with friends as well. Favorite IP ever even tho it’s been dry lately!!

@J_Mo_Money i know what you mean. Call me crazy, but i just never had any interest in buying a Steam Deck. I know Steam as a storefront is great and i have respect for it. But their hardware and controllers do nothing for me. But i am excited to see what MS and Sony do with their handhelds. Plus i am enjoying my Switch 2. Donkey Kong Bananza is just a master class of fun.

@Fiendish-Beaver this game is for sure to get people on PS and PC ready to buy E-day. I am happy to have this version as it is much nicer looking. But us crazy hardcore Gears fan’s crave more than reloaded. Now if this was Gears of War 2 Reloaded, i would be a kid in a candy store right now. E-Day can’t come soon enough brother!!

@J_Mo_Money agreed, the older i get the more i buy less games but play the same few games for way more time and buy skins and maps etc etc. i have over 1000 hours into Diablo 4 and easily do more than that with Gears of War and Red Dead Redemption. But when i do want to try new games. There is a ton on Xbox and PC. Plus i do have a PS5 and Switch 2. Tho i only play a few 1st party games on each. I will say tho, i took a chance on Donkey Kong Bananza and it is INSANELY FUN. I am loving it and it was worth the $70. Good luck on getting the handheld. Happy to see you support it and having fun. Thats what maters in the end. 😀

@Fiendish-Beaver Yeah i agree buddy. No way with only 30 million consoles. Heck it’s looking like even 100 million consoles isn’t pleasing the suit and ties and dev teams. Which is a big change in our industry,

@Fiendish-Beaver MS didn’t bring their games to other platforms solely based on GP, they brought their games to more platforms cause Xbox has only sold 30 million units. That is not enough to support today’s cost. Sony is at 80 million consoles and no GP and looking for ways to bring in more users and money. Without GP MS might be out of hardware all together. So i see GP as strength as do they. I buy all my games on Series X and PS5. But i understand why some don’t and use a service. But 30 million consoles in today’s dev cost would not be enough profit for MS not to look to PC, PS and Cloud.

@Fiendish-Beaver yeah i am look at Steam right now on my Mac and sure enough a lot of these newer games are priced lower. Like you shown. Which makes sense as PC has more storefronts to compete with. When i last priced check games on Steam it was older games i would want to own if i built a PC, so Red Dead, Diablo etc and the prices were the same as Xbox and i was like what’s all the excitement for. Steam is really really good. If i had a PC i am sure i would use it some. Will be very interesting to see how it exist on the next Xbox/PC box. Heck maybe i should get all my games there in case i do decide to switch to PC and just use Steam. Still not sure about Steam making a console, seems rumors have started to show they aren’t going forward but of course the Steam Deck 2. Which Gabe has said he wants a big level of boost performance before they would consider Steam Deck 2. I wonder how long a wait that is?

@Fiendish-Beaver for sure we will see live service games on Xbox from Sony, I’ve been saying that for over a year now. That’s just a no brainer. I do think we will see some single player titles as well. In my opinion a good one to start with would be Returnal. Sure it might only sell 400-500k on Xbox, but at say $60, that would be some nice money for Sony and that team. Not like that game coming to Xbox is going to hurt anything. But yeah if Sony ever get’s another live service game really doing well. They have to be on all platforms. It would be nice to see them revisit Killzone and bring that to Xbox. It could do well there as well. Time will tell. I am interested in learning more about it.

@Fiendish-Beaver i watched a video on YouTube explaining really well about what the future of Xbox and PS look like. I really liked it it was well done. The take aways that it said that i have been saying for a while now is the console wars are over it’s now the platform wars. Having the biggest MAU’s, keeping players in your games and spending money. Fortnite has really pushed this on the market. They make a billion dollars a quarter. To take that player base which is huge and get them to come play other games has proven to be hard. Then there COD and Minecraft and Roblox. Sony just released their statement saying 40% of their earnings were from live service games and they admit it’s gotten off to a rough start with concord and Marathon but they are well under way on solving that issue and working hard on a new set of live service ideas. Single player games will still be a thing for them but as we are seeing, it’s likely to remain just 1 a year. Maybe 2 if they do a deal with second party. Think Death Stranding. So i like this move for them. I am excited to play some of their games on a Xbox controller. If i am really needing to play some of their single player titles on day one, well i have a PS5 and will do that there. But i do think the future is not so much about how many consoles you are selling but how many players are buying and staying inside your games. Expanding that to all players. Making it easy to get into and play with others on different platforms. Exciting times. But for sure Sony has said it themselves, it’s about the platform now not the console as much and we know Xbox is now a platform not just a console like generations past. It’s going to take gamers time to understand these moves and get on board. They are still kicking and screaming online and threatening to go to PC, which i laugh cause MS wants them to do that. Yes please do sell your PS and get a PC, did we mention we have PC game pass? Haha

@Fiendish-Beaver yeah if i had a pc i wouldn’t much care about handhelds really either. As or steam being cheaper, thats really sort of a myth. New games for the most part are the same price on steam. They have big sales sure, but so does Xbox and PS. Where that came out is when console games would launch a year or two or even 3 years later on steam and the games were cheaper. I go on steam on my computer all the time to just look never buy and the whole notion that games are cheaper there 90% of time just isn’t true. It’s just another thing gamer grab ahold of cause they heard enough people say it online. As for the console MS is making a first party box, they’ve been working on it and AMD already announced its chip deal. It will be using UNDA which will allow for PC and console code to match, making it easier for devs and PS6 will use RDNA which is what we have now in both machines. Tho rumor has it Asus and other OEMS can make a Xbox pc/console as long as the specs are the same as the 1st party Xbox or higher, can’t be lower. Those OEM boxes will use the new Xbox Os. Which i am dying to see and know more about. So yeah that is already confirmed MS is making a console/PC. As for the OEMS and which ones. So far it’s rumored to be Asus in 2026 and the 1st party Xbox in 2027. I would like to see a powerful one made by Razer. That could be really high end and cool. I think Razer would do a good job of blending PC and Console together using high end design and specs. Wouldn’t be cheap would be my guess. Still a lot to uncover about next gen but it’s exciting as we are getting closer to it by the month. 😀

A little surprised to hear it but not much. I am a huge Diablo fan. It’s my 3rd favorite IP in gaming and as much as i love D4, the end game content has been average to bad at times. Really need to get the end game content better. Wishing Rod a happy future.

@Fiendish-Beaver i don;t have any issues with steam. But i don’t have my collection there and i am not sure if i will ever truly game only on PC. Maybe… i have told myself a ton of times it’s the place to be. But I LOVE consoles and always have. Play anywhere is marketing for sure. But i do like that via Steam and Xbox those games can be played in more places. As to where on Sony it’s only good on their devices. Nothing wrong with that just less convenient. I am excited to learn more about next gen. I will make my decisions on that info when it’s out in the open. 😀

@Fiendish-Beaver when it comes to Steam, as i said i would like to see and know more. But MS is very open about what store you want to collect from will be on Xbox and play anywhere is the goal. How that looks, i am excited to see and learn more.

As for Sony, they have said they are moving to gain more MAU’s. That’s the way MS said it in the beginning too. Then the job posting, before that leadership talking about being in more places than just their console. The reports are there if you want to read them. But again the breadcrumb trail is out now. Sony is looking to be in more places and i think it will serve them well.

@Fiendish-Beaver i agree with you. Anyone thinking it’s only live service or the floodgates are going to open is just setting themselves up to be disappointed. Hence my stance on it. We don’t know and the ones saying only live service has taken a hard stance on that. Which i get it, yes live service games tend to need players. So it makes sense. Guess what else needs players? $300 million dollar one and done single player games. They tend to forget that. Ask Square if they were happy to barely sell 3 million copies of FF rebirth. They are now going full 3rd party again and not doing exclusives and that ain’t a live service game. So in a nutshell that’s my take on it until we learn more. I have a PS5 as well so of course it don’t matter to me. But like yourself i may double dip a few just to have some on Xbox as well.

@DaveTheRave i ain’t trolling on Push, i am putting a few people on notice that they were wrong in things they said to me. But otherwise i said it in plain English. I think Sony is doing the right thing and it will be good for them. Thats not a troll.

MS is making a boat load of money with around 35 million consoles sold. Sony is double than that in consoles sold and looking to bring its games to more places. I don’t see anyone failing besides the school systems cause of the way some of you think and talk. The big 3 are all doing their thing.

@DaveTheRave as far as you are aware is about as open of a comment to discuss as any. But ever hear of a company called Asus? They have a PC/Xbox model in the works for 2026. Launching before the first party Xbox/PC hybrid. It’s clear the next Xbox is a PC hybrid with other OEMS making models to go along sides MS first party console. Please be careful in how you reply as i take it you are more into trolling and not having an educated conversation. As far as you are aware thats called the block button. I am not here to play insult games on the big 3. I support them all. Thank you.

@Fiendish-Beaver however, if you look back at when Xbox started to put their games on the PC, you can easily argue that that is where it all started to go wrong for Xbox.

I disagree with that, when it all went wrong for Xbox was, Xbox One launch. TV TV TV, if you don’t have alone we have a console for that, it’s called Xbox 360. That is where it went wrong. Then Sony doing a 20 second clip of how to share a game was the nail in the coffin. So MS had to move away from Xbox as the only place to gain users. Selling software is the name of the game in this business we all know that. Hard to do when you launched your console off on such a bad start. Sony putting their games on PC was shouted at the roof tops to be the end of PS. Cause the internet always has to be doom and gloom. PS5 is selling just fine. The same way it will continue to sell just fine with some of their games on NIntendo and Xbox. Will they lose some players to PC? Probably, but they will make so much money being on more platforms it won’t matter. So in plain words, no i do not think Sony having games on other platforms will hurt their bottom line but in fact grow it.

@Fiendish-Beaver there’s no cop out and it’s not about me being right, it’s about following what Sony is saying. I am not telling you they are moving away from the closed ecosystem, they are telling you that, you just hear it in the terms you want.

As for when, i think it comes down to what teams are going to be doing the work. What disrupts their business model the least. Which to me would be smart to start with older games. Maybe a 2018 God of War? That is just sitting around often on sale for 10 dollars, why not port that to Xbox for $50. I don’t know what they are going to price them at. Uncharted would be a nice fit for the Xbox gamer. Then there’s little big planet and Astro bot on Nintendo that would make some sense. Again how long do these ports take and who do they have doing them? Thats what I’d like to learn more about. Again this all goes back to raising their profit margins, so the real question is when have shareholders and investors put a hard date on seeing those numbers rise? I would guess in less than 3 years. It’s taken MS some time to get games to PS5 and they still haven’t put anything on Switch 2 yet but they will and MS has way more devs than Sony. Again this isn’t about being right or wrong for me as much as it’s just pointing out that people care so much about exclusives that they are defending this job post as live service only when NO ONE KNOWS THAT. Could that be true and i am wrong? Of course. But i am not drawing the line in the sand on only live service to help myself feel better that exclusive are dying a slow death and companies and devs want all their games in more places to play.

@Fiendish-Beaver i will buy my games on the Xbox store over Steam. Many causals will as well cause likely it is the default store and they don’t care about steam. MS will likely match the steam sales to remain competitive. However we do not know all the workings and potential profit sharing of that deal behind the scenes. Phil and Gabe have a very close and long friendship. I am sure there has been a lot of talks within them to make this happen. Until we learn more on the matter i don’t want to overstate what that looks like. But again i have said this for years now on here, the end game isn’t console. It’s cloud streaming for the causals and PC’s for those that still want hardware. We aren’t there yet. But just like all other mediums in the entertainment market, we will see streaming be the mainstream solution as tech carries that closer and closer to a console level performance. PC is growing like crazy and will continue to for quite a while. Time will tell how all that plays out.

@cragis0001 @Fiendish-Beaver where people are wrong for not listening to me is not following the money. To MANY gamers come on here and speak babble about money. Never to realize it’s not that i am a fly on the wall in these meetings. It’s just common sense. Sony’s profit margin is low. Investors have asked them to be at 10%, they aren’t close to that at the moment. Or the last i read into it. So these ports would help. I have also defended MS choice in moving away from a one closed box ecosystem and have said that Sony would be faced by shareholders and their own internal leaders to raise profits. Did i guess this would take shape so soon? No, i thought we would start to see this in the PS6 life after they grew that install base. Not now before the launch of PS6, giving players maybe a reason to leave the platform, even tho a very small number of gamers will do that. Not listening to me about money has lead more people into the i told you so comment than not. This ain’t a brag or flex. I am an accountant. I see what companies will do for a few hundred thousand. Not to mention millions. Always follow the dollar, especially in todays gaming and you will be closer to right than wrong nearly everytime.

@cragis0001 thank you, i did the same with Steam coming to Xbox and i got a little push back. The thing is this is all public information, it’s not that hard to think for yourself and see what they are telling you and yet most gamers jump on the trend comments online and believe it’s the way the companies think and act. Which couldn’t be further from the truth. Then i come along with the receipts and hold people to what they said for months or even years and they freak out on me. Thats my role around here HAHA

@WildConcept6 yeah that all makes sense to me. If i were Disney i would want the game on as many platforms as possible. I don’t care for the marvel games. So not sure i would buy it. I beat the first Spider-man and it was fine, but a little boring towards the end. So likely i am not buying them but Disney should maximize their earning potential. Time will tell.

@Fiendish-Beaver it’s not a cop out. I just ain’t taking guess’s and saying live service only or anything like that cause the job listing never said anything like that. It gave no hints. Thats why i am waiting to hear more. As for your question, yes i fully expect to see AAA Sony titles coming to Xbox much sooner than 3 years. What would have been the point in them hiring and causing all this noise online if they weren’t’, everyone thinks Spider-man is the first game to come to Xbox. I don’t know about that, reason why is every copy sold is money to Sony, MS and Marvel. So that don’t make Sony nearly as much profit. They ain’t giving their games to Xbox and Nintendo to be nice, they want money back. So while Spider-man would sell nicely on Xbox and the internet all thinks that’s the first one to come. I don’t know about that.

@J_Mo_Money yeah i have lost a lot of respect for Push Square writers. They troll so hard and now that the shoe is on their foot. They are deflecting like crazy. The fan base is setting themselves up for a big let down thinking Sony isn’t trying to take the bag of money to please some rude kids online trolling other brands. In what world does that ever happen? In all this i think the industry is better from head to toe without exclusives, i want to see gamers have a choice in where they play and what they play it on. I want to be able to use the controller that don’t hurt my thumb and wrist. I want to be able to play with my friends regardless of platform they own. I want online games to have bigger player bases. I could care less about console wars. It’s a known fact PS worldwide is going to outsell Xbox. Sony’s games coming to Xbox won’t change that. Maybe it slightly grows PC gaming more, which is already growing at an insanely fast rate. There is no malice in what i want of this move. It’s solely for the better and timed exclusives will still exist for Sony, they aren’t bringing Spider-Man 3 day and date to Xbox anytime soon. But they might be getting closer to doing that with PC, who knows!!

@cragis0001 I appreciate that so much. Yes i am. They hate the truth. Just wait until i remind them they said what’s the point in owning a Xbox if my PS plays all its games and Sony’s? That will go over well!

@Millionski @Kaloudz @Fiendish-Beaver

I ain’t saying how many games or when. Thats my whole reason for starting to talk to you about it. Cause unless i read it wrong. You were making it sound like only live service games and that was my point how do you, we or anyone know that? We don’t. I am not saying i know the plan, what i am trying to say is people are grifting hard for Sony and saying oh it’s just live service games. HOW DOES ANYONE know that? I certainly don’t know that but if i look at the breadcrumbs and leaks it’s looking like they are deciding the strategy as the job listing it fairly new still. 3 months ago this would not even be a talking point as Sony was locked into the old traditional console model. Which is fine, it makes money but they want more money and they see that their is ways to do so and they are starting to come out and say we are making moves that are off our console. So in time we will know more of that but i lost count at how many people are 100% sure that it’s only live service games and right not i am tearing into that cause there is no reason to have that take on it, the same reason i can’t say what games and when they are coming. Which i haven’t done. I have guess and said it’s likely the ones that will make money, which would make sense, and Sony don’t have multiple live service games that make money. So that would logical mean some single player games. Again to be clear which ones and when? I have no clue.

@cragis0001 you might be right. Time escapes me sometimes when i have to beat a dead horse. I’d be lying if i didn’t say i can’t wait to see the outcry on YouTube. All those that said why buy a Xbox? Or I’ll just build a PC. Someone is always ready to throw away their toys when they aren’t giving them what they want and what they want is a console that they can hang a list of exclusive games over other peoples heads. That list is shrinking or going away and they can’t believe it. So much so they are saying it’s just live service games. But is it?

@Kaloudz Everything you just said is what i have been saying for weeks now and all i get met back with is, is a load of coping and deflection points. I will sit back and just wait for other titles to be announced and pull the i told you so card!

Some, no actually most choose to learn the hard way!

@Fiendish-Beaver how much more writing on the wall does everyone need about Sony wanting to bring titles to more platforms? Is it only going to make sense when the Last of Us is on the Xbox Store? I have been trying to help connect the dots for weeks now. This is more wood to the fire.

@Fiendish-Beaver again i agree with most of what you are saying. But people aren’t going to leave their preferred console and all their digital games cause of games not being exclusive anymore. The average PS and Xbox customer is someone that buy’s 2 sports games a year and cod or Fortnite. Those players aren’t leaving and they aren’t make Sony or MS much money. So the small hardcore market is simply not enough to support $200-$300 million dollar games. Hence the reason Sony went to PC. When that happened the whole internet said there was no need to have a PS anymore, their games can be played elsewhere and 70 million console sales later it’s not hurting them at all and it won’t hurt them to have games on Xbox either.

@DaveTheRave I personally want the next Xbox to be different. It ain’t doing them much good being a traditional console. I have a PS5 for that experience. The specs are starting to leak on the next Xbox and it’s exciting to me. Again if you don’t like it or don’t want to support Xbox, as i said Push square will welcome you and you can be happy, thats not spin.

@Fiendish-Beaver i don’t disagree that Gamepass holds back some sales if the game is on that service. As it should, why buy it? But games that are not on GP still sell on Xbox. GTA 6 will sell on Xbox. Sports games do sell on Xbox. But even Sony don’t sell games like the internet fans tell you it does. Astro Bot struggled to get to 2 million and was a brilliant game. We all know Day’s Gone was a flop, loads of Horizon and Spider-man game sells came with it being bundled into the console. So while yes Sony fans buy more games than Xbox, it’s largely due to install size and the fact that PSN + sucks in comparison to GP. Throw in the fact that the best selling games on PS are also the best selling games on Xbox and they aren’t exclusive games. Sony already said most of their money comes from micro transactions. So of course they want more MAU and games that have such transactions in them. I know that MS and Sony run to different business models, but MS does well money wise with half the install base and Sony is paying attention to that cause they have said repeatedly they want more money from outside PS. All i can say is i am not sure what games and when Sony will bring them to Xbox, but to say it won’t be any single player games is a HUGE mistake. Seeing as that is the only genre they have that gamers care about. Their live service game or games SUCK and are DEAD. Outside of one and that is coming to Xbox at the end of the month. Why isn’t Foam Stars coming to Xbox? Cause it’s dead and won’t make money. So they are building this job for just HD2 and the hope they are going to hit a big game in the future? Nintendo isn’t know for online, so why include them in the job posting? My guess would be for games like Little big planet, Astro bot and more. I mean i said it before I don’t even like more than 25% of Sony’s first party games. So this won’t be a big win for me. Not to mention i own all 3 consoles. But i do like gamers having choice and more games to support and play. For that reason only, i hope the whole slate comes over.

@Fiendish-Beaver Sony have at least two Live Service games that are still in development, @HonestHick; Marathon and Fairgame$. They do have other games too, and have recently said that they will be making more of them...

To this all i can say is good luck, Marathon is DEAD out the gate and Sony and Bungie knew it, delayed it and i can’t see that mattering much. Fair games isn’t looking good and many on Push Square have already said they could care less. So Sony is in the hole with live service games. Will they try more? Or sure, but Sony has shown us they haven’t a clue what a good online game looks like. Until that changes i have a 2/10 belief system in their offerings.

@Valhura Thanks for the question. Of course i have every Gears game ever made with 1000’s of hours on them all with the PVP. Which is the reason i want this, it will be the first time in PVP that we have Xbox, PC, PS players all together. I am looking to headhunt and build big stats online. Can’t wait. In Gears 5 PVP i was in the top 15% in America. So i am about to make some PS players break their controllers with any luck. Plus i am excited for the single player being in the best tech shape it can be in. So i will beat that likely twice, once solo and in co-op. The 26th can’t get here soon enough.

@DaveTheRave the only thing that is clear is that kids and “adults” without a college degree online have come to a conclusion that Xbox ain’t making money, buying games and is dead. To those with a corporate level education, see it much different as the data shows and is ignored for reasons fit to argue online. Again you do whats best for you. But your idea of Xbox’s business is incredibly incorrect.

Can’t wait, Gears is my favorite IP in gaming. It’s been some rough years. But this will hold me over until E-Day, which will be my game of the generation. Can’t wait to play on the 26th.

@TrollOfWar you are 2000% right buddy. Great post!

@Fiendish-Beaver while nothing you said is wrong, it’s also an older idea of what Sony used to be. We have seen them say they want more MAU’s. How are you going to get those, leaving your box and going to others. They seen MS do this. Also i have to address this, i keep seeing live service games, plural. Sony don’t have more than one successful live service game to port. The one they do, HD2 is coming. But the rest of their live service has been cancelled or fail in 2 weeks. What else do they have to port? They can’t make a live service game that sticks to save their back side.

Yes i agree they used to protect their IP, heck so did MS for that matter. But Sony has to bring their profits up for investors. There is no other way to make that type of profit without bringing some easy money ports to Switch and Xbox. I think newer games will remain timed on PS consoles, sure, but older titles they need that cash. I mean they are already 3rd party now with making games for PC. Just cause they aren’t day and date like MS, doesn’t change the fact PC gamers don’t need a PS5 to play PS games. People gloss over that, but Sony is already 3rd party. Now they are just looking to add more platforms. Like i said, we know Sony, they are quick to respond to internet chatter when it comes to their business, and they have yet to put this fire out. Tells me all i need to know alongside what the actual job title says.

@DaveTheRave all platforms are dying outside of Nintendo. It’s a long race to cloud and PC. Consoles are not going to be what our kids play when they are 25-30 year olds. But if you think Xbox is to “dead” go get a PS5 and chat it up on PUSH. They will love your attitude there.